> -----Original Message-----
> From: Greg KH [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2013 12:50 PM
> To: Dave Airlie; Deucher, Alexander
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Patch Upstream: drm: fix documentation for
> drm_crtc_set_mode()
> 
> I fail to see how the patch below meets the stable_kernel_rules.txt
> guidelines.  Come on, documentation is good and important, but not
> needed for older kernel releases.

Well, the existing documentation for those parameters is wrong and confusing, 
but you're right it's not a critical bug fix.  Feel free to drop it.

Alex

> 
> thanks,
> 
> greg k-h
> 
> 
> On Mon, Dec 17, 2012 at 12:00:56PM -0500, Gregs git-bot wrote:
> > commit: 4c9287c6009b37754c42e0ba73a4cc79de92d8f8
> > From: Alex Deucher <[email protected]>
> > Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2012 17:26:32 +0000
> > Subject: drm: fix documentation for drm_crtc_set_mode()
> >
> > x and y parameters are offsets, not width/height
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <[email protected]>
> > Cc: [email protected]
> > Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <[email protected]>
> > ---
> >  drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc_helper.c |    4 ++--
> >  1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc_helper.c
> b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc_helper.c
> > index 7105168..b04cf53 100644
> > --- a/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc_helper.c
> > +++ b/drivers/gpu/drm/drm_crtc_helper.c
> > @@ -346,8 +346,8 @@ drm_crtc_prepare_encoders(struct drm_device
> *dev)
> >   * drm_crtc_set_mode - set a mode
> >   * @crtc: CRTC to program
> >   * @mode: mode to use
> > - * @x: width of mode
> > - * @y: height of mode
> > + * @x: horizontal offset into the surface
> > + * @y: vertical offset into the surface
> >   *
> >   * LOCKING:
> >   * Caller must hold mode config lock.
> > --
> > 1.7.3.4


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